Yearly Archives: 2023

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Paying it forward

A few months back I had their pleasure of talking with Maxime Lenormand , the man behind the podcast Minds Behind Maps. It was a sort of meta podcast with me interviewing another geo podcaster. Ed had pointed me at Max’s two and a half hour long podcast interview with Steve Coast, I had thought that I could never listen to something that long but of course I did (in chunks)! After the podcast recording […]

“Using” Open Source

At a recent tech conference hosted by a proprietary software company one of the presenters said “We’re serious about open source, and we use it to build our software“ I guess he thought that this was a virtuous statement of coolness and openness. The speaker then went on to talk about the ways that the company was giving back to the open source community. It prompted me to think about the absorption of open source […]

Crystal Ball Gazing 2023

So we did our Christmas thing again, Denise, Alex, Ed, Jeremy, Ken, Mark and I sat down for our review of the year with a glass or two of wine and a microphone. You can listen to the Geomob podcast Christmas Chaos edition here. This year there were justifiable claims that some of last year’s predictions were at least partly correct, or they had happened but slower than anticipated, but some were just plain wrong. […]